If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Wallace Stevens

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Wallace Stevens

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Wallace Stevens

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Wallace Stevens

Money is a kind of poetry.
Wallace Stevens

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Wallace Stevens